Re: Recovery Storage Group vs Brick level backup

[Susan]

RSGs are great...my preferred method of recovering items that have been
deleted...no need to set it up in advance...here's a good link...

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;824126

"Tyler" <Ty...@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:1C804DA4-5057-48B7...@microsoft.com...
> I have read that brick level backups are not extremely reliable and from
> first hand use are extremely slow. I have read that by using a recovery
> storage group you can accomplish the same thing be restoring the whole
store,
> exporting the mailbox (exmerge) and then recovering the mailbox. Is the
RSG
> the recommended way to backup mailboxes and recover them?
>
> If so do I set up a RSG ahead of time or just in the event that I need to
> recover a mailbox?
>
> I am using exchange 2003 Ent, Windows 2003 Server and Veritas BE 9.1.
>
> Thanks.

[Mark Arnold [MVP]]

On Mon, 25 Apr 2005 08:50:05 -0700, "Tyler"
<Ty...@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

>I have read that brick level backups are not extremely reliable and from
>first hand use are extremely slow. I have read that by using a recovery
>storage group you can accomplish the same thing be restoring the whole store,
>exporting the mailbox (exmerge) and then recovering the mailbox. Is the RSG
>the recommended way to backup mailboxes and recover them?
>
>If so do I set up a RSG ahead of time or just in the event that I need to
>recover a mailbox?
>
>I am using exchange 2003 Ent, Windows 2003 Server and Veritas BE 9.1.
>
>Thanks.

Bricks level backups with all vendors used to be a long, darwn out
process and unreliable at best, liable to balls the backup completely.
A number of vendors now offer the facility to take a normal backup and
then, if a restore is required, delve into it and get a single item.

Veritas 9.1 (IIRC) isn't there yet so the RSG is a great way of
restoring a live store and then extracting single mails out of it. You
do need to restore more than strictly necessary compared to Veritas
but it's a good way to test the integrity of your backups, which in my
book is a damn good thing)